Environmental Science News
| Feature: Shellfish make fantastic plastic | Posted: 1st of September 2010 |
| Plastic bags could soon be compostable and made from renewable resources such as shellfish waste. | |
| Math explains water disasters | Posted: 26th of August 2010 |
| Using optical fibre technology and a mathematical theory, researchers are able to explain disasters from financial crises and rogue waves. | |
| Prize for capturing carbon | Posted: 25th of August 2010 |
| Dr D'Alessandro has investigated ways to capture and release carbon dioxide, hydrogen and other gases using molecular sponges. | |
| Double quake boosts tsunami | Posted: 19th of August 2010 |
| Researchers have discovered that the recent Samoan tsunami was caused by two earthquakes – an event not recognised before. | |
| Immune corals show less stress | Posted: 18th of August 2010 |
| Researchers have demonstrated that corals with a weaker immune system are more susceptible to bleaching and disease. | |
| Model shows biochar potential | Posted: 11th of August 2010 |
| Modelling suggests biochar - a type of charcoal - could be used to offset billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans. | |
| Donors fund devil disease study | Posted: 11th of August 2010 |
| Grants funded by public donations will help Australian universities research a deadly disease threatening Tasmanian devils. | |
| Wasp to defeat 'skeletoniser' | Posted: 11th of August 2010 |
| A tiny Tasmanian parasitic wasp will be released in New Zealand to counter the 'gum-leaf skeletoniser' - an insect that's killing eucalypt trees. | |
| Feature: Mobiles making the world a better place | Posted: 9th of August 2010 |
| Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen has already invented a fully functional, Get
Smart-style shoe phone and now he has come up with mobile phones that
don’t need network reception to work. | |
| Climate changed kangaroos | Posted: 4th of August 2010 |
| The first anatomical study of the entire skeletons of modern and fossil kangaroo species has shown how climate shaped their evolution. | |
| Coral cores show sea history | Posted: 2nd of August 2010 |
| A research team has raised cores of coral from the Great Barrier Reef to look at how sea level has changed – and it doesn’t look smooth. | |
| Penguin poo seen from space | Posted: 2nd of August 2010 |
| Scientists are using satellite images of guano – or penguin poo – to map changes in penguin habitat. | |
| Rare coral shocks researchers | Posted: 28th of July 2010 |
| An incredibly rare coral species discovered in the North Pacific Ocean can't be officially protected unless more research is done. | |
| Seahorse study may save sight | Posted: 28th of July 2010 |
| Seahorses' eyes share similarities with the human eye, so studying seahorses is helping scientists to understand how vision develops. | |
| Moreton Bay as coral lifeboat | Posted: 26th of July 2010 |
| Moreton Bay,
close to Brisbane, could be a possible ‘lifeboat’ to save corals from the
Great Barrier Reef at risk of extermination under climate change. | |
| Sea spiders key to evo. history | Posted: 22nd of July 2010 |
| ea spiders have been found to contain secrets to Antarctic evolution through their age, distribution and diversity. | |
| Venom harvest from octopuses | Posted: 21st of July 2010 |
| Researchers have collected venom from Antarctic octopuses for the first time, a potential resource for drug development. | |
| Tiny microbes, global effect | Posted: 18th of July 2010 |
| Oceanic microscopic organisms have been found to influence global climate through ecological interactions and responses. | |
| Marsupial secrets in fossil cave | Posted: 18th of July 2010 |
| A 15-million-year-old Australian fossil limestone cave has been found to contain fossils that reveal the lifetimes of marsupials. | |
| Deep-sea fish caught on camera | Posted: 14th of July 2010 |
| Scientists from the Queensland Brain Institute have used high-tech equipment to photograph underwater creatures. | |
| New display of fishy fossils | Posted: 14th of July 2010 |
| The fossil of a large, fast-swimming predatory fish that was found near Isisford, central-western Queensland will join other fossils on display. | |
| Aussie oil drilling threatens fish | Posted: 8th of July 2010 |
| A study has revealed a chain of ecological processes that support Australia's fish stocks, which may be at risk from oil drilling licenses. | |
| Carbon emissions threaten fish | Posted: 5th of July 2010 |
| Rising CO2 emissions could have a significant impact on the world’s fish populations according to groundbreaking new research carried out in Australia.o Text | |
| Flexible budget saves nature | Posted: 1st of July 2010 |
| A new study suggests that a more flexible approach to expanding protected areas could protect more biodiversity for the same budget. | |
| Tea tree tested as cancer cure | Posted: 1st of July 2010 |
| A three-year study from the University of Western Australia has found that tea tree oil inhibited the growth of tumours in mice. | |
| Ocean change picks up speed | Posted: 20th of June 2010 |
| Greenhouse gases are driving big, irreversible changes to the oceans, according to a new study – with worrying consequences. | |
| Foam breaker cleans waterways | Posted: 16th of June 2010 |
| Scientists have developed a treatment that breaks down the remnants of toxic firefighting foam – preventing water and soil pollution. | |
| Whale poo helps carbon burial | Posted: 16th of June 2010 |
| According to new research, sperm whales may help remove carbon from the atmosphere, because their poo causes plankton growth. | |
| High winds fan big bushfires | Posted: 14th of June 2010 |
| Wind is more important than temperature for bushfires, according to new research – an important fact for many Australians. | |
| Corals fishers caught out | Posted: 9th of June 2010 |
| The livelihoods of fishers in the world’s richest coral reef region are at risk from collapsing fish stocks, environmental decline and coastal development. | |
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